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Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 11:34:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>
> It is already available.  I've announced it on the NPTL mailing list a
> couple of days ago.

Ok. I was definitely thinking of something rpm-like, since I know building
it is a bitch, and doing things wrong tends to result in systems that
don't work all that well.

> If there is interest in RPMs of the binaries I might _try_ to provide
> some.  But this would mean replacing the system's libc.

I suspect that many people who test out 2.5.x kernels (and especially -bk
snapshots) don't find that too scary.

		Linus

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